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This guy used a Nikon 880, a digital camera. It would be interesting to know which "SCENE" he chose.

"Nikon Coolpix 880 Review, Phil Askey, August 2000

Review based on a production Nikon Coolpix 880 (Firmware E880 V1.0)

. The 880 also has a few features the 990 doesn't, most notably the SCENE modes which will make it easy for beginners and more advanced users alike to select a preset shooting mode which puts the camera into the correct setup for shooting a particular scene. In addition to this it appears that the SCENE modes also apply differing colour / contrast settings to achieve a certain "look" depending on which SCENE you've chosen. Scene shooting modes provided: * Portrait * Party/Indoor * Night Portrait * Beach/Snow * Landscape * Sunset * Night Landscape * Fireworks Show * Close up (macro) * Copy (black & white) * Back light"

[Richard Kimball]

Where did you get the camera info? On the post I saw, it said a Nikon 8, which is not the ID of any Nikon camera I'm aware of, digital or film (course, I'm strictly a Canon shooter, so I don't follow Nikon very closely). It should have been daylight going over California, so the long exposure time doesn't make much sense to me. I've shot a CP990, and the CCD, lens, and software are very similar. It's fine as a consumer digital camera, but I have difficulty believing that anything of any value would come from this type of camera, taking that long an exposure at that distance. Again, though, your post is the first reference I've seen to that particular model.

[Rocketboy_X]

Don't forget, digital cameras are not intended for archival/research types of images. The blue streak might very well be an error in the camera's part.